I'm trying to add buttons to a JPanel vertically, without using a layout
manager explictly.
button_panel.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.BLACK));
JButton add_class_button = new JButton("Add class");

I'm having a problem when I copy an image to the Windows System
Clipboard.  When I copy an image I'm able to paste it to Word and Excel
but no Outlook.  In Outlook I see a boundary but no image.  It's seems
like Outlook can't read the image or the image isn't complete in the

i've made a graphical component (some kind of rule like the one of word). When the use left click on it, a small shape is added. Right click delete one shape, and you can move all the shapes.
Now i need to know somewhere else when such events occurs. So i don't know what to do:
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I'm developping & supporting a standalone application that my users
stare at for 6 hours in a row. now that all functionnalities are
working properly, we've been thinking of making it a little nicer on
the eyes, by adjusting colors and the like.

A JTextPane is a text component that can be marked up with
attributes that are represented graphically.
In the process of writing a chatting application, i am going to use
JTextPane for accepting the text from user on a client (So that

I am trying something that I feel should be simple, but I am having
some trouble with it.  I want to have a list of strings, and when the
user clicks on one element, I want to print that element number to the
screen.

could you suggest me how to get charts that can be updated as long as
data source of the chart are updated (new data are added) ?
thank you,
l.s.

i have a main class that extends a JFrame and another one that extends
JDialog
From the class that extends JFrame, i create an instance on the JDialog
class and try to show the Form so to say.

I have a non-modal JDialog with a JFrame as an owner.
On a mouse right-click the dialog  becomes visible at the mouse
position. And it works fine. But when I start dragging JFrame , the
JDialog remains on the same screen position. Is there a way to "glue"

I've used setIconImage to set a custom image on a JFrame. Problem is
that when it's clicked it disappears never to repaint. If I use
frame.setState(Frame.ICONIFIED); then the image reappears once the
frame is maximised, but if the use just clicks on the image and then

Hi all out there
I want to come back to this dammed old JTree problem which doesn't seem
to be solved correctly. Look at the code at the end, run it an press
the switch button. What you see is that the long text gets abbreviated

I have a HTML file, encoded in UTF-16, which my webbrowsers can display very
well. But when I load the same URL into JEditorPane, I only see some ugly
boxes and other trash.
<code>

I am pat.
I am dyslexic so its hard to learn JAVA.
its hard for me to learn JAVA from books.read & understand for me from
books.

I've just installed VE with Eclipse, and while the install seemed to go
fine (I have the appropriate versions of EMF and GEF) when I create a
new VisualClass, my palette is empty.
Has anyone run into this before?

can u set a border, set background color, etc.. to panels?  (or can you
only do this to JPanels?)
I have to do this applet and have a somewhat tight dealine..  am torn
betw. doing it in just AWT or SWING, since don't know SWING very well..